Tonight the Whitney made public for the first time its preliminary drawings for a new museum at Gansevoort and Washington Streets, right next to the High Line's southern terminus in the Meatpacking District.
Whitney Director Adam Weinberg presented Renzo Piano's plans, calling the new facility ...
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On Monday night, we were invited to the most exclusive of West Chelsea events: a FLOR-laying party in our new office on 20th Street.
In preparation for our move this weekend from our cramped quarters on 14th Street to our new palatial digs, we covered the bare concrete with squares of the...
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Last week, a group of twenty Tiffany & Co. employees removed their jewelry and donned gardening gloves to clean up trash on the rail yards section of the High Line in anticipation of our High Line sketching classes which starts this weekend. The employees are all part of TIffany 's Team...
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Amanda Burden, Chair of the New York City Planning Commission, has long been a supporter of the High Line-- she sheparded through the 2005 West Chelsea Rezoning which allowed its preservation. And excellence and hard work was recognized recently.
On Monday evening at the 2008 National Planning C...
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Artist Spencer Finch will discuss plans for the public art work he's mounting on the High Line at a FREE public lecture next week. The piece, called "The River the Flows Both Ways," will be installed where the High Line goes through Chelsea Market, and is made of 720 pieces of colored glass ba...
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Summer is just around the corner, or so this 80-degree day would have us believe. Above, sunset at the rail yards, last summer. It's hard to beat that golden light filtering through the smog over New Jersey.
Last Week's Photo of the Week
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One of the most exciting furniture pieces on the High Line will be movable chaise lounge chairs located at the Sundeck between West 14th and 15th Streets. These lounge chairs will sit on the original rail tracks, mounted on new wooden ties, and can be rolled into place or set with brakes.
Unob...
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This remains my favorite proposal for the reuse of the High Line - a mile long lap pool. Nathalie Rinne, an architecture student in Vienna submitted the plan and as part of our 2003 Ideas Competition.
The simplicity of the idea, the singularity of use and the graphic way in which it was convey...
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A new addition to what's being called the "High Line building" at 450 West 14th Street-- designed by Morris Adjmi and developed by Charles Blaichman-- is one of just a handful of new buildings in the Meatpacking District designed specifically for office space, signaling a new (but certainly not...
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